Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThe way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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All’s well that ends better.
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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